Your daily smörgåsbord of the very best gaming has to offer.
Enthusiast:
Spore system requirements revealed, as lenient as we could hope for (Spore.com)
EVE Online’s free expansion Emperian Age launches (EVE-Online.com)
Wii FPS The Conduit dated Q1 2009; will include “competitive online multiplayer component” (High Voltage Software via WorthPlaying)
Spyro: A New Beginning, Guilty Gear XX# Reload join Xbox Originals (Gamerscore Blog)
Industry:
RROD born through Microsoft’s hubris, according to analyst (EE Times via Gamasutra)
NVIDIA’s PhysX might finally mean something with new NaturalMotion partnership (VerticalWire)
FTC vs Take-Two vs EA, Round Ninety-Four (Reuters via GamePolitics)
Razorworks, last internal studio of Empire Interactive, on verge of closure (Original, follow-up at Develop Mag)
Flagship Studios experiencing mass exodus — or maybe not. Who to trust? (Gamasutra, Kotaku)
Interviewed:
PC Gaming Alliance president Randy Stude outlines future plans, trumpets platform’s financial health (CNET News)
Ready at Dawn president Didier Malenfant on why they’re casually ditching PSP development (Joystiq)
Microsoft’s Viva Pinata engineers heap Rare praise on the Nintendo DS (Eurogamer)
Research: Over 20% of casual gamers are disabled, compared to 15% disability rate among general population (GameDaily)
Perspective: Nintendo doing less than it should to help WiiWare developers, says only “geeks and otaku” need more storage space (Edge via Next-Gen)
Film: Turok voice actor to star in live-action Turok film (MTV Movies via MTV Multiplayer)
Look Ma, No Morals: The sincerest form of flattery is blatantly stealing another game’s assets (GamePlasma via Joystiq)
Watch:
HD footage of iPhone action-adventure Krull, as shown at WWDC 08 (Shacknews)
Strong Bad’s Cool New Screenshots, Video, and Incredibly Payable “Tech Demo” for Attractive Readers (Telltale Games)
Play: Watch a few ads, explode several heads with free version of Psi-Ops (Fileplanet via Eurogamer)
Buy: MGS4 bundle at Wal-Mart, get $100 gift card — confirmed by (Joystiq)
June 11th, 2008 at 11:03 am
Ooooh, that’s not a wise move by Mr. Fischer there. Namecalling customers with legit complaints like memory space is a good way of blowing the goodwill the company’s built the last two to three years.